Nothosaurus marchicus

No picture of Nothosaurus marchicus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Nothosaurus marchicus itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Nothosaurus marchicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NothosaurusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Sauropterygia

Time the record covers

At most 10 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 237 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 12 of 12 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 1 occurrence243–243 Mya — about 1 occurrence243–242 Mya — about 1 occurrence242–242 Mya — about 1 occurrence242–242 Mya — about 1 occurrence242–241 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences247.5 Mya236.5 Mya

12 occurrences of Nothosaurus marchicus on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

12 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

4 formations

Karlstadt — 52.47°N, 13.78°EVossenveld — 51.97°N, 6.73°EJena — 52.47°N, 13.78°ETrochitenkalk — 51.09°N, 11.63°E

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The named rock units Nothosaurus marchicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nothosaurus marchicus and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Nothosaurus marchicus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Nothosaurus marchicus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

3 references

Each of the 12 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Nothosaurus marchicus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Nothosaurus marchicus itself, so it was not used.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Nothosaurus marchicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Nothosaurus marchicus was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Koken 1893